Supervisor, Facilities Maintenance Weekend
Abbott
Summary
The Supervisor, Facilities Maintenance - Weekend Operations leads the weekend Facilities Maintenance team supporting critical operations across the Madison campus. The role ensures safe, reliable, and compliant operation of facilities by directing maintenance work, responding to alarms and unplanned events, providing technical oversight, and maintaining effective continuity with weekday Facilities teams.
Job description
The Opportunity
The Supervisor, Facilities Maintenance - Weekend Operations leads the weekend Facilities Maintenance team supporting critical operations across the Madison campus. The role ensures safe, reliable, and compliant operation of facilities by directing maintenance work, responding to alarms and unplanned events, providing technical oversight, and maintaining effective continuity with weekday Facilities teams.
What You’ll Work On
- Lead and supervise weekend Facilities Maintenance operations, including staffing, coaching, performance management, training, and technical guidance.
- Prioritize and direct preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, service requests, inspections, work orders, and troubleshooting activities.
- Lead response to critical alarms, equipment failures, utility interruptions, environmental events, and other emergency or business-continuity situations.
- Ensure maintenance and facility operations comply with SOPs, safety requirements, the Quality Management System, and applicable regulatory standards.
- Maintain accurate and timely CMMS/EAM documentation, work-order execution, equipment records, findings, corrective actions, and schedule communication.
- Coordinate shift handoffs, operational updates, stakeholder communication, and escalation between weekend and weekday Facilities teams and support functions.
- Oversee weekend vendor work and support facility projects, shutdowns, commissioning, construction, and planned maintenance events.
- Monitor KPIs and identify improvements to equipment reliability, technician productivity, work processes, operational effectiveness, and customer service.
Requirements
- Associate’s degree in mechanical, electrical, facilities management, engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of relevant facilities maintenance, facility operations, industrial maintenance, or similar technical experience, including 1+ years leading, supervising, directing, or coordinating employees and/or technical teams.
- Must meet company DRIVE program requirements.
Company overview
Abbott Laboratories is a global healthcare leader with a 135-year legacy of innovation, dedicated to helping people live healthier, fuller lives through life-changing technologies and products. Headquartered in Abbott Park, Illinois, the company operates in more than 160 countries with a workforce of approximately 114,000 professionals. Abbott's diversified portfolio spans four core business segments: medical devices, diagnostics, nutrition products, and branded generic pharmaceuticals. The company is particularly renowned for its groundbreaking medical devices including cardiovascular technologies, diabetes management systems like the FreeStyle Libre continuous glucose monitor, neuromodulation devices for chronic pain, and the AVEIR DR dual chamber leadless pacemaker system. In diagnostics, Abbott has been instrumental in developing critical tests, including the first licensed HIV test in 1985 that helped secure blood supply safety. The company's nutrition division produces leading infant formulas like Similac, while its pharmaceutical business provides quality branded generic medicines. Abbott consistently ranks among Fortune's Most Admired Companies and maintains a strong commitment to sustainability and corporate responsibility, making it a trusted partner in advancing global healthcare.